Re: Case-Insensitve Text Comparison

On Mon, Jun 02, 2008 at 10:29:30AM -0700, Jeff Davis wrote:
> I think if you want some special treatment of text for some users, it
> should be explicit. Text in one locale is really a different type from
> text in another locale, and so changing the locale of some text variable
> is really a typecast. I don't think GUCs are the correct mechanism for
> this.

The SQL COLLATE syntax handles this just fine. Either the original
COLLATE patch or the new one will let people tags strings with any
collation they like.

Have a nice day,
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